Example sentences of "down [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were in a shabby little hole in Paddington , and when we came back from the pub that night he went walking up and down that hotel room , sticking his chest out and saying , ‘ I 'm the sex queen of Bloomsbury . |
| 2 | If you put down that crystal ball , I 'll show you how your spreadsheet can help you with this dilemma . |
| 3 | Turn down that side bit and it 'll bring you to the swimming baths . |
| 4 | Dad , dad , the crews will be sweeping down that side passage and then coming over and then past my window again . |
| 5 | Remember we went down that slate mine ? |
| 6 | Work down each door edge in a series of overlapping bands , wafting the aerosol form side to side . |
| 7 | Play up and down each scale pattern covering all six strings as in Example 1 . |
| 8 | Importantly , the Fresco toolkit can pull down different user interface components at run time and is able to take on Open Look , Motif or other look and feel styles . |
| 9 | Let me advise Council now , that if they proceed down this primrose path any further then it becomes a resignation issue for me and , I suspect , many others who can not believe this farrago . |
| 10 | To reach us you have to walk down this passage way between the two shops . |
| 11 | Downing Street could n't turn down this gift horse for fear of offending the President but at the same time , they had nowhere for him to go so since March , Maxat , a champion racehorse , was stuck in these Turkmen stables waiting impatiently , getting flabby and fractious . |
| 12 | I go down this side street where there ai n't so many big shops . |
| 13 | Another company had difficulty in tracking down specialised research work , what there is and how to get a copy . |
| 14 | She gulped down some orange juice hastily . |
| 15 | Inside the pump-house there was little more to do , but they smashed the transformer oil pipes with sledge-hammers and threw down some tar baby incendiaries . |
| 16 | He would go down into the cellar tomorrow and put down some rat poison . |
| 17 | A familiar sound in the Amazonian rainforest as the loggers bring down another mahogany tree . |
| 18 | And as he closed the window of his room against the night frost , he was afraid to look out on the hills in case he heard angels sing and the other folk in the home would dismiss the story because of the two , long drawn out drinks he had before sleep closed down another Christmas Day . |
| 19 | At the same time the government did not push its reforms as far as some supporters wished ; it did not , for example , place the onus on union members to contract in rather than out of paying the political levy and has done little to break down national wage bargaining which pays little attention to different local labour market conditions . |
| 20 | PowerGen turns down cut price coal offer |
| 21 | A SERIES of information films with advice on cutting down domestic heat loss will be running at four Belfast leisure centres next week . |
| 22 | Thus , the development of the angiosperm flora of the Palaeocene was paralleled by an extensive radiation of specialised herbivorous mammals with the capacity to ferment and break down tough plant material . |
| 23 | Another idea thrown up by interferon research has been to make synthetic analogues of the 2',5'-oligoadenylate molecules formed in response to interferon and which activate the nuclease enzyme to break down viral messenger RNA . |
| 24 | For example , in many mammals growing males lay down less body fat than females ( Glucksman , 1974 ) and suffer heavier mortality during periods of food shortage as a consequence ( Clutton-Brock et al . , |
| 25 | Also good personal anecdote of Mr Gladstone cutting down small cherry tree but being unable to lie . |
| 26 | All 650 men in the battalion were divided into teams of five , which had to run 100 metres and then shoot down twelve metal plate targets , four teams against each other at a time . |
| 27 | The German fighters made three claims only , Joachim Müncheberg shooting down one Hurricane south-east of the island at 1130 , and a second near St. Paul 's Bay at 1153 , while Fw . |
| 28 | Of course taking logarithms and dropping down one time derivative does little to alter the spirit of the analysis and does much to expose the intuition behind this very influential relation . |
| 29 | Write down one priority behaviour for intervention . |
| 30 | Fold down one wire half to lie against the stem , wind the other half around stem and wire . |